Bill
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Public Consultancy and Services Contracts Bill 2025
before parliament, as at 2025-07-30.
- Sponsor
- Colbeck
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2025-07-30
- second reading — 2025-07-30
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2025-07-30.
This bill would create a parliamentary committee to review and report on consultancy and services contracts made by Commonwealth entities.
The committee would have eight members, four from each house, and could examine contracts referred by either house or the minister, with mandatory referral for contracts worth over $2 million.
The bill is a response to $3.272 billion spent on management advisory contracts in 2022–23, which the sponsor says lacks the oversight applied to major public works.
- Establishes a joint parliamentary committee to scrutinise consultancy and services contracts.
- Requires mandatory referral of contracts exceeding $2 million in value.
- Empowers the committee to examine referred contracts and inquire into related systemic issues.
Commonwealth entities that enter into consultancy and services contracts, and the public who would gain oversight of such spending.
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